Category Archives: Research

Scan the brain for learning

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For hundreds of years, school and college exams have been used as practical tools to test students’ learning abilities across the globe. Interestingly, a team of researchers from Georgetown University has now claimed that brain scans provide a more accurate measure of students’ learning than the conventional grade or marks-based systems.

The question is how much the students will be able to apply the learning.

Read all about it: HERE

Dyscalculia research continues to grow

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The dyscalculia blog reminds us that the research into dyscalculia continues to grow and has some great recent findings. See them in the link for today.

Read all about it: HERE

Learning with a tablet

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Contrary to conventional belief, study shows children can learn how to solve a problem on a tablet computer and transfer this learning to the same problem in the physical world

Read all about it: HERE

Do not drill those time tables

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Read the scientific proof that drilling is not a good strategy.

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Gestures help learning

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Susan Wagner Cook, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at the University of Iowa, has conducted numerous studies with various scenarios and it is confirmed that children learn better when they can see gestures while hearing the explanations.

Read all about it: HERE